Also, I don't doubt that white academics say and have said these things. I'm white and this is all believable to me. I know a criminologist who frequently says the n word as a descriptor and his wife accuses academics of color in her field of fabricating data. I quit hanging in that circle but plenty of Junior scholars kiss up to both of them and have to have heard that too...

This is an incredibly unethical. I am shocked the journal published this. Although he claims to have changed the identifying details, he has only worked in so many universities, and there are only so many faculty and graduate students of color in those programs. It would be easy to figure out who he is talking about if you were familiar with those environments.